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| Jean-Honoré Fragonard Winter 1735 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Claude-Joseph Vernet Storm 1765 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
And over all their heads
The god's king, in abhorred claps, his thunder rattl'd out.
Beneath them Neptune tost the earth; the mountains round about
Bow'd with affright and shooke their heads; Jove's hill the earthquake felt
(Steepe Ida), trembling at her rootes, and all her fountaines spilt,
Their browes all crannied. Troy did nod: the Grecian navie plaid
(As on the sea); th'infernall king, that all things frayes, was fraid,
And leapt affrighted from his throne, cried out, lest over him
Neptune should rend in two the earth, and so his house so dim,
So lothsome, filthy and abhord of all the gods beside,
Should open both to gods and men. Thus all things shooke and cri'd.
– Iliad, xx, 56-66, translated by George Chapman (1611)
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| John Constable Stormy Sea, Brighton ca. 1828 oil on paper mounted on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Stormy Landscape with Philemon and Baucis ca. 1625 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ludolf Bakhuizen Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee 1695 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Eugène Delacroix Christ on the Sea of Galilee 1854 oil on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Eugène Delacroix Christ on the Sea of Galilee 1841 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
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| Samuel Palmer Summer storm near Pulborough, Sussex ca. 1851 watercolor Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Crescenzio Onofri Man fleeing storm before 1698 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
From the heights the Sire of gods
And men rolled dreadful thunder; and beneath
Poseidon made the infinite earth to quake,
And the steep mountain-summits: all the roots
Of many-fountained Ida and all her peaks,
The Trojans' city and the Achæans' ships
Were shaken. Hades, lord of shades below,
Was scared, and leapt in terror from his throne
And screamed for fear Poseidon earthquake-lord
Should burst apart the earth above his head,
And his abode be bared before the eyes
Of mortals and immortals – his abode
Ghastly and dank, which e'en the gods abhor.
So huge arose the clash of battling gods.
– Iliad, xx, 56-66, translated by Sir William Marris (1934)
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| Jan Brueghel the Elder Beach with sailboats and stormy sea 1614 drawing Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin |
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| Rembrandt Cottages under a stormy sky ca. 1635 wash drawing Albertina, Vienna |
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| Johan Christian Dahl Thunderclouds 1831 oil on paper mounted on canvas National Gallery of Norway, Oslo |
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| Gaspard Dughet Mountainous landscape with approaching storm 1638-39 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Vincent van Gogh Wheat-field in rain 1889 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Childe Hassam Rainy day, Boston 1885 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) |
From high above the father of gods and men made thunder
terribly, while Poseidon from deep under them shuddered
all the illimitable earth, the sheer heads of the mountains.
And all the feet of Ida with her many waters were shaken
And all her crests, and the city of Troy, the ships of the Achaians.
Aїdoneus, lord of the dead below, was in terror
and sprang from his throne and screamed aloud, for fear that above him
he who circles the land, Poseidon, might break the earth open
And the houses of the dead lie open to men and immortals,
ghastly and mouldering, so the very gods shudder before them:
such was the crash that sounded as the gods came driving together in wrath.
– Iliad, xx, 56-66, translated by Richmond Lattimore (1951)